Steve Laver
President
Joining the company in late 2006, Steve’s diverse background in the real estate service industry and his record of success, brings a powerful combination of experience and capability to the Playground team.
For the past two years, Steve has been the President of Storied Places, Intrawest’s private residence club (PRC) division. Under his leadership, Storied Places has become the second largest company in the PRC industry, with one of the highest brand loyalty ratings in the business.
Steve brings with him 23 years of pre-Intrawest experience as a full-commissioned real estate sales agent and then as a national partner at Trammell Crow Company, as the President of Brookfield Management Services, and as Chief Operating Officer and a founding partner at Bentall Capital. Like Intrawest, each of these companies had a mix of direct business and large third party clients. All of them grew under his leadership in both scale and profitability.
Steve also brings the unique perspective of being first a customer of Playground, through his ownership in Storied Places’ first offering in Whistler, British Columbia, and then as a client to Playground, during his tenure as President of Storied Places. These experiences combined, will continue to fuel the phenomenal growth and success of Playground.